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Do you need a snowblower in Long Beach, MS?

Your answer for Long Beach

No snowblower

Long Beach sees measurable snow only in a freak year.

If you are moving to Long Beach from somewhere snowy, you can sell the snowblower before you move.

When the snow comes in Long Beach

  1. Dec0.1
  2. Mar0.1

Inches of new snow per month, averaged over 1991 to 2020.

Long Beach and its neighbours

Almost no snow falls in Long Beach. In Mississippi, Hernando gets the most here at 2 inches.

TownMilesSnowTwo car, paved
Gulfport, MS70 inNo snowblower
Bay St. Louis, MS120 inNo snowblower
Biloxi, MS140 inNo snowblower
D'Iberville, MS170 inNo snowblower
Ocean Springs, MS230 inNo snowblower
Gautier, MS300 inNo snowblower

Where these numbers come from

Read next: Why storm depth matters more than snowfall and What a winter of snow weighs.

NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals from Gulfport Naval Center, 2.8 miles from Long Beach. A normal winter, not this winter's forecast. Snow is weighed at 6.24 pounds a cubic foot, fresh and fairly dry; wet spring snow can weigh three times that.